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The First 100 Chinese Characters : The Quick and Easy Way to Learn the Basic Chinese Characters / Alison and Laurence Matthews.
GIC Collection at Penn Libraries
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Matthews, Alison.
- Language:
- English
- Edition:
- Simplified Character Edition.
- Summary:
- The major struggle facing all beginning Chinese language students is to learn to recognize, read and write hundreds of Chinese characters. The First 100 Chinese Characters adopts a structural approach that helps students to overcome this initial difficulty and quickly master the basic Chinese characters that are fundamental to this language. Intended for beginning students, this book contains characters that have been carefully selected and sequenced for rapid and effective learning.
- For effective learning, memorization and practice, each Chinese character is shown separately on a single page, together with its English definitions, hanyu pinyin romanization, alternate form (if any), a stroke order guide and ample space for writing practice. Printed in gray lines, the stroke order guides introduce the student to the standard stroke sequence used in writing the characters, by tracing over them. After learning the correct stroke order, the student can then practice writing the characters on their own, thus reinforcing recognition and memorization. Large boxes with grid lines for correct proportions are provided. Related Compounds and phrases containing each character are also included to assist in vocabulary building. Three indexes (alphabetically by the English meanings and the pinyin romanization, and by radicals) are provided at the back of the book for quick and easy reference, along with extra sheets of blank boxes for writing practice.
- This book features: The 100 most frequently-used Chinese characters, Foundation characters for the HSK A level language proficiency test, Standard hanyu pinyin romanizations, Step-by-step stroke order guides and ample space for writing practice, Over 500 words and phrases containing the basic characters, Concise English definitions.
- Contents:
- Yi 10
- Er 11
- San 12
- Si 13
- Wu 14
- Liu 15
- Qi 16
- Ba 17
- Jiu 18
- Shi 19
- Ni 20
- Nin 21
- Hao/hao 22
- Qing 23
- Wen 24
- Gui 25
- Xing 26
- Ta 27
- Ta 28
- Jiao 29
- Shen/shi 30
- Me 31
- Ming 32
- Zi 33
- Wo 34
- Shi 35
- Da 36
- Xue 37
- Sheng 38
- Zhong 39
- Ying 40
- Wen 41
- Ke 42
- Lao 43
- Shi 44
- Tong 45
- Xiao 46
- Xiao 47
- Peng 48
- You 49
- Men 50
- Ne 51
- Xie 52
- Zai 53
- Jian 54
- Mei 55
- Guo 56
- Ren 57
- Ma 58
- Ye 59
- Bu 60
- Shei/shui 61
- De 62
- Jia 63
- Ba 64
- He 65
- Ma 66
- Ge 67
- Jie 68
- Di 69
- Mei 70
- Zhu 71
- Zai 72
- Zhe 73
- Nu 74
- Er/r 75
- Na/nei 76
- Nan 77
- Hai 78
- Zi/zi 79
- Dou/du 80
- Mei 81
- You 82
- Zuo 83
- Shi 84
- Liang 85
- Ge 86
- Duo 87
- Shao/shao 88
- Shi 89
- Jian 90
- Jin 91
- Tian 92
- Ji 93
- Hao 94
- Ming 95
- Nian 96
- Yue 97
- Ri 98
- Xing 99
- Qi 100
- Zao 101
- Shang 102
- Xia 103
- Wu 104
- Chi 105
- Wan 106
- Fan 107
- Le/liao 108
- Na/nei 109
- Hanyu Pinyin Index 110
- Radical Index 116
- English-Chinese Index 118
- List of Radicals 128.
- ISBN:
- 9780804838306
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